I am having a hell of a time locating a picture. I've only seen it once, it is circa 1960, black and white and consists of 5-7 men on motorcycles riding away from the cameraman with their backs towards to camera. There is a high horizon so it looks as if the riders are riding off the edge of the earth. A very iconic MC picture. Alas the photographers name slips my hazy memory. Any bells? Thanks!

Afternoon all,
Anyone know where here in the San Jose area one could rent or buy the movie One Week? Thanks for any help.

Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia. Along the way, he makes new friends, reevaluates his relationship with his fiancée Samantha (played by Liane Balaban), his job, and his dream of becoming a writer, and, after suffering some near-death experiences, learns to appreciate life.

Unbelievable.....

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Last minute notice...but I'm meeting a friend at the store at 1 for lunch. Prolly hit the coast after. If you're free, come on by...

:)

As of the last few days, SR-88 just east of Pioneer has been sanded. It's that time of the year, many of the foothill roads and all of the high sierra roadways will begin to accumulate sand on the margins and, when fresh, in the wheel-tracks as well. If you are out and about on two wheels or four...be alert!

Sopiago Springs Resort owner Tim Regehr/TOT is seeking a pashnit member to assist with the development of a website for SSR.

Using the existing .com address at godaddy, the qualified member(s) will use pics and text in conjunction with cool design and current web innovations to help SSR produce and maintain an informative and interesting web portal for information about the coming year of events and projects at Sopiago.

If you think you may be the person we are looking for, or if you are interested in learning more, PM me, John/Fastfar.

This is an unpaid position, but we offer a private membership at SSR and the use of facilities, track, trails etc. in exchange for your website skills...

found out last week I was type 2 diabetic i had a feeling I was but it took nerve damage in my legs and my wife to go see a doctor, I have nutrition class and a glucose meter class to go to now , this bites all the good food I love is now out of my reach .

Some riding buddies and I will be going across to Belgium for a day trip to this rally.

We first went in 1985 for the weekend but the crowd thinned over the years and for the last five or six we have only gone over for the day.

Our group this year consists of nine bikes and anyone local is invited to join us.

We are going on P&O's 0830 sailing from Dover to Calais and returning at 1920local time.

If you are interested drop me a PM.


http://www.mtvo.be/sinterklaastreffen.html

Well, a sad time has come. Dunlop stopped making my beloved 208GPA tires:love (ok it was awhile ago, but I had a reserve) and I'm forced to find a new beloved tire. I've gone back to Parnelli's which I ran before, put 'em on the Tuono first...figured Eye-talian shoes for Eye-talian scoot...how you doin'?:reallycoo

So, any SoCal'ers want to go for a little ride on Sunday while I try to figure them out? I was thinking of heading towards Lake Hughes for some buffalo wings and lemonade. That way, if the tires don't make me happy...I still gets me wings. :p

Lemme know...:)

hi,

i am plotting...er, planning.... to take my wife on a trip to big sur. i'd like to fly in (to what airport?) and rent a scooter(yes, a maxi scooter) and take her (she likes to ride:clap). any places to rent a scoot for a week?...around the big sur area? i think the trip from colorado our state to big sur is a bit long for us and i'd rather spend time up and down the coast.

also, what do u recommend as best time of the year to visit?
i've soaked in tim's road report, which is great.

any other tips from you left coast guys and gals are appreciated. thanks:hello

Is there a remote shutter control for the GoPro Hero? In other words, can I snap still pictures while riding down the road?

Sunday...blue sky, sun shining in the valley...my wife has "The Look" on her face while I'm puting my riding boots on....there is not much conversation going on this morning...all you can feel is a ststick and sparks in the air...flies are falling from the air like fried pop corn.....
I don't think I will be forgiven any time soon...



But all this forgaten as I making another turn around the corner...the ride is ON!
I do not have to warry about a thing right now ...I'm free like a bird again...and nobody can stop me...



First place I visited was Hech Hechy reservoir in Yosemite National Park, about 65 miles (105 km) northeast from the city of Merced, California.
The reservoir has a capacity of 360,000 acre·ft and is formed by the 364 ft concrete gravity O'Shaughnessy Dam in Hetch Hetchy Valley
on the Tuolumne River. After a years-long battle against the dam, led by John Muir, the dam was approved under the administration
of Woodrow Wilson in 1913 and was completed in 1923. It is owned by the City and County of San Francisco. The primary purpose is to supply drinking
water to the San Francisco Bay Area, where it provides 85 percent of San Francisco's total water needs.





Next I headed South to Yosemite National Park.



The days are short this time of the year...5pm is already dark and cold ...so I maintained my speed just above the speed limit while climbing to the higher elevation...





While crossing over one of the bridges that day...I hit some black Ice....!
Ice Ice Baby...! My bike just slid from under me...I felt like flying up in the air
for a second...or two....but then I came back to my sences...whait a minute! people don't fly ...they fall and crash...! I was not looking for this
and twisted my trotle to "Wide Open" position...somhow I managed to get out of this turn without a crash....





After several miles I started to desend to the lower elevation...and the icy roads were soon forgotten...



...to be contiued...:D

This turkey took on the traffic and a fellow Victory rider on his Vision!





Be careful as I have seen a lot of Wild Turkeys around, not only the gobbler kind, but also the cager kind. Let's hope they aren't drinking Wild Turkey!!

Be careful Holiday Parties are starting to h
ppen.

This week there were 4 hearty souls that wanted to ride and we were fearful of the rain but hey when you have an invitation to have lunch in Washington you weather the storm. So we head out on Sunrise Blvd. headed for downtown Washington. No, not D.C. but CA. instead like the place where the toothless banjo player is sitting on a bench playing dueling banjos.

I have written about this place before as I have a few memories related to Washington and some of the inhabitants mostly past residents. There was a time when I was younger that I would drop down there to swim in the southfork of the Yuba, have a picnic or maybe visit the Washington hotel and bar for a visit with Harold and Emma Moneyhon who also owned the Holbrooke Hotel in Grass Valley.

My brother Neal drove truck for George Dunlap for a few years and they had a contract to haul lumber from the Tahoe Sugerpine sawmill at the far end of town. I also hauled a few loads of lumber out myself in a truck that Elmer Harvey bought from Ed Garvey at Garveys truck dealership in Stockton. It was a red Kenworth with a white stripe and I was mighty proud to get that truck after driving the old GI 270 GMC WW II surplus gas rig. It was only a 150 Cummins with a C Brownie but it got the job done until I moved on to bigger and better trucks.

I brought it into Car Earls welding shop on the outskirts of Grass Valley where he set it up for hauling lumber with a new set of rolls on truck and trailer. At times, we would put on logging bunks to haul logs and I did that one year up in Graniteville where Speck Fuller had a logging show east of Graniteville where we would bring the logs back down to Jerry Dodges mill back down by Als corner on Tyler Foote rd.

While I was logging there we had to stay in Graniteville during the week to get more loads to the mill and then come home on weekends. Monday morning early I would head out to the logging show VIA going thru Washington up Gaston Rd, so Washington and Graniteville both are small little dots on the map but have a special place in my memories. I have written about both of them before, so I won't elaborate again but one of these days I am going to get the dirt bike out and go back on a ride to the past.

As I said , we took Sunrise

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and picked up 65 going north thru Lincoln and turned right on Wise Rd. to wind around the foothills headed for Auburn. We eventually caught Baxter Grade to Mt. Vernon to Joeger to Drycreek rd. Rode past the area they had a fire recently and saw that they were very busy rebuilding most of the buildings that were destroyed. Continued on Lake Arthur rd. to connect with Placer Hills Rd. that would bring us into Colfax more or less. We did touch a few other roads that would wind around to reconnect but while they are winding, they are sometimes similar to a road race course with all the twists and turns involved.

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better late than never.......:whistle

hope you had a decent day to ride :D